News flash: First " new fundamental technology in audio since the 1970's"

[egellings]

Genuflect when you say that.

 

[mhardy6647]

And timing of course. But as we know, time costs money.

Time is money. Einstein demonstrated this.

 

[Norv]

The page is full of typos and basic readability mistakes, I've messages them and offered to point them out, in return for compensation obviously! I'll post my review of the system when it arrives!

 

[Cbdb2]

Wow, Mark says hes the first to come up with 1meg input impedance. Something nobody else has ever tried. Wait everyone's tried it and discovered its a huge mistake. Its a great way to increase the noise of the input signal. This is EE 101 and Mark Levinson has failed. And he's a liar, 1meg input impedances have been around since at least the first guitar amp!

Another pile that uses snake oil to make the product worse.

 

[Martin]

I can't find anything about this new technology outside the market speak of Daniel Hertz website. Wondering if anyone here has an inkling what they're on about?

"Mark Levinson and his team of Daniel Hertz audio engineers have developed a new class of audio chips with embedded C-wave (continuous wave) software called Mighty Cat. Mighty Cat, combined with new Daniel Hertz audio architecture and speakers, are the first products to deliver the experience of pure analog from any digital source, including streaming"


Heck of a deal for $200,000

M1 System (Maria 800 with M1 Reference Speakers Audio System) – Daniel Hertz S.r.l.

Maria 800 Daniel Hertz Mighty Cat™ Audio Chip with C-Wave. Digital Audio Converter ( DAC ) Pre-Amplifier 4 Channels designed for Bi-Amplification Headphone amplifier. 200 Watts per channel (8 ohms). 400 Watts per channel (4 ohms). 800 Watts per channel in 2 channel Bridge Mode (8 ohms) Custom...

danielhertz.com

Love the pricing:
$199,999.99 or 12 payments of $16,666.66

Convenient monthly payments just in case you can't swing the 200k up front.

 

[Prana Ferox]

I watched C-waves glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate

 

[sarumbear]

Daniel Hertz Mighty Cat™ Audio Chip

If they use the word chip as it means they are planning to sell a lot of those amplifiers. Chip development is expensive and you can’t have a small-run.

 

[Cbdb2]

At $200k each how many chips do you need to sell? I dont trust anything the lia... ah marketers say. And I would be surprised if they actually fully developed a dsp chip. Probably programmed an available "chip".
And maybe there is no magic chip, since it doesn't do anything useful.

 

[Killingbeans]

I smell FPGA, but I could be wrong.

 

[JStewart]

Ahh, Dick Hertz. When I lived in the Boston area, I knew a Dick Hertz from Holden, just a bit north of Worcester.

I don’t know if you’re joking, but there actually is (or was) a real Richard Hurtz from Holden. I know because he was an employee back in the 80s.

And now back to the even more ridiculous discussion about magic c waves…

 

[antcollinet]

I've messages them

Really?

 

[antcollinet]

If they use the word chip as it means they are planning to sell a lot of those amplifiers. Chip development is expensive and you can’t have a small-run.

I'm guessing fpga

EDIT: Ninjad by @Killingbeans

 

[thewas]

It is weird that this company belongs to Mark Levinson which is a Harman brand and not typical snake oil.

 

[mhardy6647]

I believe it belongs to Mark Levinson the guy -- who's been divorced from (so to speak) his early, eponymous company for a long time AFAIK.
Sort of like the littered landscape of erstwhile Bob Carver companies over the years.

 

[sarumbear]

I believe it belongs to Mark Levinson the guy -- who's been divorced from (so to speak) his early, eponymous company for a long time AFAIK.
Sort of like the littered landscape of erstwhile Bob Carver companies over the years.

And most likely is barred from using his name on an audio company that he starts.

 

[mhardy6647]

And most likely is barred from using his name on an audio company that he starts.

Almost certainly so, I would think.
Didn't he (ML the guy) have a company called Red Rose or something like that?

I'm guessing fpga

EDIT: Ninjad by @Killingbeans

Yeah, once I knew what that meant* -- that would be my expectation, as well.
I mean, heck, they coulda epoxy potted a Raspberry Pi and silkscreened an obliquely evocative and whimsically vague** product name on it -- and probably improved their profit margin even further.

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* I thought FGPA was a web initialism like FOMO -- 'til I looked it up.
** Like Mighty Cat or whatever it is.